Dibs

Kola Boof —author of such books as Diary of a Lost Girl, Flesh and the Devil and Long Train to the Redeeming Sin, who claims to have been held captive by Osama bin Laden for several months in 1996 and, in her own words, “shared his bed” — is now offended (according to a press release from Boof’s publisher, Door of Kush Books) by a New York Post story that calls her Osama’s “sex slave.” But it’s not only the Post. Boof, who in accordance with a rule of her own making, appears topless in her book-jacket author-photos, is also called the master terrorist’s sex slave in the Times of India, Hindustan Times, GQ, New Kerala, FishbowlLA, MyWay.com, Digg.com, Onlypunjab.com, Vibe, and dozens of other venues, including Dibs! last month. In a press statement released today, Boof — who now writes for the soap opera Days of Our Lives — denies being anyone’s slave and objects to the Post‘s use of “nastiness they would never inflict on a white author, and then they go on to trash my work on the television serial, ‘Days of Our Lives,’ [suggesting that she is] supposedly bringing a ‘Bin Laden-like’ character to the show, which is nonsense… I, Kola Boof, would like to say now… that since the day I have tried to tell my story in this country, I have been unfairly lied on and outrageously maligned by the press. Whether it was Connie Chung’s alleged assertion that Bin Laden would never have a ‘black’ mistress … or the New York Times and their hatchet job claiming that I didn’t exist … I have been met only with racism, snobbery and all around privileaged ignorance by the pot-heads who edit and write for the newspapers in the United States, and since we all know that I could give two camel humps about being popular … I have given my heart and soul to the work that I did at ‘Days of Our Lives,’ because I learned English watching that show as a child.” Boof’s upcoming novel from Random House is allegedly called The Sexy Part of the Bible.